Ms. Zahra Kazemi Beaten
to death by Tehran Prosecutor - Green Party of Iran member a witness
to similar beatings in Evin prison by interrogators of the Iranian regime

Ms. Zahra Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian journalist was beaten to death during
an interrogation in Tehran after being unlawfully arrested by agents of the
Islamic regime. According to the French newspaper Liberation, Tehran Prosecutor
Saeed Mortazavi, beat Ms. Kazemi on the head personally with his shoe while
questioning her. After being brought to a Revolutionary Guard interrogation
center, Ms. Kazemi fell into a coma and was not taken to hospital until three
days later, according to the newspaper. Some Persian language news sources
have questioned the reliability of the Liberation report.

A member of the Green Party of Iran has witnessed similar beatings during
interrogations in the 7th division of Evin prison. According to our member,
interrogators would sit the prisoner on a chair and ask him to write his confession.
Meanwhile, the interrogator would place a chair behind the prisoner and stand
on it. If the prisoner did not write anything after a certain amount of time,
the interrogator would suddenly, using his heel, kick the prisoner's head.
In most cases, prisoners would black out after such a forceful blow to the
head. Our Green Party of Iran member is willing to testify in international
court regarding this pattern of beating in the Islamic Regime's prisons.